Hi,

I'm am using ST2 on mac with REPL and R. What I would like to do is open a quartz display (i.e. generate a figure) without having ST2 switch to a different screen. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

~Alex

Isn't there a good possibility to replace the regular expression engine with a faster one? I guess you use "re" from python, but there are faster ones.

Find/replace on large files is rather slow and could crash. For example:

a file of 1.000.000 rows with empty lines, replace "^\n" with "" (without the quotes), to remove the empty lines. This will take a while or crash.

This is because the "re" uses backtracking, which could be rather slow. But there are also regular expression engines which use finite state machine (FSA). You can see this page for more information: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Possible options could be (but not limited to):

• RE2 - http://code.google.com/p/re2/ 
  (with python bindings: https://github.com/axiak/pyre2)
• PIRE - https://github.com/dprokoptsev/pire
• Iregexp (regular expression engine of V8) - http://blog.quenta.org/2009/02/irregexp.html (but no python yet, as i know of)
• http://blog.errstr.com/2013/01/22/implementing-a-more-powerful-regex/

I would like to be able to edit the attributes of the "NON-HIGHLIGHTING THIN RED ZIGZAG with TRANSPARENT-BACKGROUND" that appears when you misspell a word.   In general  it is not clearly visible with certain themes, and not scaled appropriately with small and large text, so I think manually adjustments are in order.   Maybe the style (underline, zigzag, dotted), pixel width, (whether or not it highlights the text, or changes the font color of the misspelled words/characters, or the background of the underline element or text.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-27/creating-a-climate-change-garden/5119178

That's why Doug Rawlinson from Goulburn, in south-east New South Wales, has created a garden with a difference.

He calls it his "climate change garden".

"I've been in the horticulture industry for many many years and I've looked at the changes and as far as climate change goes, no one can really know what's going to happen," he said.

"Except I can definitely say there's extremes now."

The southern tablelands of New South Wales can be cold and windy, with very hot days in summer.

Mr Rawlinson says he's creating a garden that can cope with more extreme changes.

"There are about 20 raised vegetable beds, an orchard with about 25 different fruit trees, an experimental warm room with avocadoes and pineapples and about 30 different vines, including blueberries and boysenberries," he said.

Shade is an important part of the garden.

"In the centre of all my beds I've got independent, 75 litre planter bags with weeping cherry trees in them and that's going to give me the shade I need in summer because I've found in the past that most of my vegies have been crispy," he said.

"They've had wet root systems, (been) mulched nicely and the fruit on top is just baking in the sun, so shade is a very important part of a new climate garden system.